Fushi no Kami: Rebuilding Civilization Starts With a Village

A horse rides next to a carriage as we chat with a group of international students about the paved road.

It was Micah who made a soft voice from the horse as she walked quietly.

"Ash, can I have a moment?

"Yes, of course."

I'm not in a half-love so I can ignore my fiancée's call.

Lightweight leather armor smiles at cool Micah, and she smiles back in a good mood. The smile is especially cute thanks to the plenty of service during your holiday at the hot spring.

With a pretty face, Micah points to the road ahead.

"It's the terrain ahead, but you said you care about Ash."

"Ah, it's a nice terrain."

It's a little uphill, and the road is very curved.

It's a terrain that's easy to ambush.

"I don't feel like it, but how about Ash?

"That's right...."

I look beyond the uphill, invisible from here.

Ah, this smells. It's faint, but it smells like people.

"Perhaps we should send a scout."

"Ah, I knew it. Okay, I'll go."

"You can't do this alone.

"I'm already worried about you ~"

In my gossip, Micah pointed her lips - unlike when she lost the game - and raised her hand lightly to signal the carriage's guard cavalry.

"Five, follow me. The three of you are still escorting the carriage."

Orders in the usual smooth tone have no feelings or temptations.

She gave her last order with the ease of going on a picnic to find just the right place for lunch.

"As soon as we find the enemy, we'll destroy it."

The super cute fiancée is too nice for a militant.

While watching the horseshoe sound of the cavalry gradually gaining strength, the medic appeared.

Um, Mayka's on a scout?

"Yeah, that's right. Now there's nothing wrong with that."

He is a fierce man at a glance in the Sakura Border Territory, where militants ring.

"It's a truly luxurious journey for you to be Lord Fennex and for your guard to be Princess Micah, the head hunter."

Praising my super cute fiancée, I fall in love. That's right, what a bragging connection.

"Micah is the grandson of Uncle Sacramento, but he won a knighthood for his track record at the martial arts tournament a year ago."

So you can call me Sir Micah.

From his previous history, he had little to do with the military, but the guards and knights obeyed honestly because of his track record of winning the King's Capital Martial Arts Games.

No matter what I say, it's a cultural area where you say things with your skills.

This time, when selecting an escort to pick up promising young people from other territories in the future, Micah smiled and said, "If you take me with you, I promise you enough work," and no one could object.

Thanks to my official duties, I was able to enjoy the hot springs of the Duke of Squana with my lovely fiancé. It's just official business.

Ah, I'll stop the carriage for a minute.

When I pull the rope lightly and signal, the horses slowly slow down.

Is there a problem, Lord Fennex?

I gently agree to Arun's confirmation, which showed slight tension. [M]

As always, my five senses are far apart, and I'm the only one who can hear the scouts kicking their enemies.

"It looks like there was an ambush and a scout has entered the battle. Let's take a breath."

What, it won't take 20 minutes.

Are you okay?

Miss Salle raised her eyebrows anxiously.

I'm worried about being attacked by bandits while studying abroad.

"I'm sorry. Recently, there has been an increase in banditry in Sakura Border Territory."

"No, I know that. For some time now, there have been people around King's Landing who are less favorable to the Sakura Border Territories."

Miss Sayle is very far away, but she seems to know all about Viscount Yasoga and the Marquis d 'Atara.

In fact, the roughness of Sakura Border Territory, which boasted fewer bandits, is due to the good use of Countess Yasoga by the Marquis d 'Atara.

There are hungry refugees coming to us because we don't run our territory properly.

Vicomte Yasoga's guards are also pushing the refugees here for harassment.

Our food self-sufficiency rate has improved in recent years, so well-behaved refugees are welcome. Bad manners can't be accepted because they are called bandits, not refugees.

Like this time, there are some skilled bandits who don't think they're refugees, who are trying to get a VIP escort and carry out ambushes.

"I'm thinking of doing something because the cost is getting worse. I'll clean it up soon, so I want you to rest assured."

Don't write in a letter to the territory about the security situation. Please.

"No, that's not it...."

Miss Sayle flickered at where Micah and the others had gone.

"Is the ambush going to make the fight okay? I wish I had fewer opponents."

Ah, I see.

I nodded that I was worried.

There is Micah who can do enough work by himself and Glenn who can do eight by himself. Even if it's only five, it's actually 20 cavalry.

Due to the tactical qualities of the cavalry, a bandit-equipped infantry opponent's battlefield can afford a double power differential.

In other words, there is no problem if there are about forty people. And our guards aren't lazy enough to miss a bandit of fifty.

I tell the international students about it.

"Don't worry. The knights and guards who serve Uncle Sacramento are very good."

The evidence suggests that the fighting has already stopped. It feels good, but it's just enough.

It was faster than I thought, so maybe Micah had fewer enemies.

Soon after I instructed the horse to proceed again, Micah let him run gently.

It's over, Ash.

"Yes, thank you. Of course you're not hurt, are you?

Micah next to her is just sweating thinly and not showering a single drop of blood.

But I think it's about love that I accidentally hear that.

"Ehehe, of course. This time it's about escorts, so I'm glad you didn't have to think about capturing them."

Micah's voice plays with ease and simplicity, whining from the carriage.

"In other words, it's everybody....."

Sakura Border Master's knee - although the Border Master himself lives in King's Land - has rapidly changed his appearance over the past few years.

Previously, the length of city walls was limited due to the lack of stone, and the size of the city was limited.

Buildings, of course, are dominated by wooden structures.

However, in recent years, the shortage of stone materials assumed by the development of new technologies has been eliminated.

New materials such as brick and cement have just appeared to me that if I don't have natural things, I can use them.

It was the masons who stopped.

Until then, they had spared their skills and creativity in repairing the Lords Hall and repairing the city walls.

I want to shake my arms more. I really want to use the technology I remember. I want to make something like that or something like this.

But we don't have enough stone.

There, we found materials that could replace stone.

Thereafter, the masons were festive every day.

I played around with new materials, figured out what to do and what not to do, and planned what to build. It looks like a child who has acquired a new toy.

In response, the Office for the Promotion of Territorial Reform was given a budget in terms of construction.

It's like a parent giving money to a growing child. It is time to learn to play a lot.

As a result, they became obsessed with playing with toys and building an unbeatable mansion at the Lords Hall.

…………

Nobody told me to go that far.

If you are comfortable with children who are passionate about playing with building blocks, you will soon be able to build a building of the same class as the residence of the lord's family.

The Sacramentos are very kind people, but that's why they're so popular.

A little conscience blames us for living a more luxurious life than the lord. There are many such people.

The brick mansion has the same facilities as the lord's mansion. It would be a waste not to use it, and the people would definitely see it in white.

What should I do with this?

With my head in my arms, the greatest of the lord's families in the capital came the tech. It's Mr. Itsuki.

"Wow, Ash really has a head. Hah, something rare happens."

Much more prominent than I was, the soothsayer nodded one look up at my poorly supervised building.

"Ash, I'll do this. It's an award for previous achievements and an engagement celebration."

I'm not trying to transfer the Mansion with the feeling of splitting snacks.

I hurriedly explain the popularity of the lord's family and the criticism of the Border Territories' folklore over luxury.

However, Mr. Itsuki strangely tilted his head and turned over the basis of my objection.

"If it's Micah's son-in-law, then Ash is one of us."

"... speaking of which, yes."

"The Lord's family lives here, so it's the Second Lord's Hall."

That's what happened.

Well, I'm still engaged.

Regardless, we must make use of what we have received. This is in return for the gift of the Lord.

So I decided to use this mansion as a dormitory for international students - and when I reported it, Mr. Itsuki looked different.

No, I know it's a nesting gift of love for a lovely niece, but it's a very convenient facility that also serves as a reception for children from other territories.

Basically, we welcome people of high status.

In this context, I will guide the three international students to the Second Monarchy Hall, which is to be used as a concurrent guest house.

"Oh no! The oil lamp is so..."

As Miss Salle was surprised, most of the lighting in this building uses oil lamps.

Given the aspects of being a guest house, I thought it would be better to consolidate the specialty products of our territory - in this case, specialty technology.

Of course, there is a bathing area for soap.

After the sun falls, I pride myself on the fact that the baths are lit by the lights of the oil lamps.

Others are trying to make a technical appeal by exhibiting models that are being developed in the laboratory.

Airplane models, steam engine models, alloy ingots, etc.

... next to the steam engine model, there is a star-shaped engine model.

Look, you just blew it up six months ago. What do you leave like a finished product on your own?

We know the killer in general.

As for the power engine, it's Hermes, the star engine extremist. I'll have Miss Reina scold you.

There are few kinds of art. Strongly speaking, it is decorated with weapons such as swords.

It is the result of practical considerations like Sakura Border Territory that weapons can be procured from there even in an emergency. It should be noted that Micah has all the swords that are easy to use.

Apart from the sword, in a museum with such a cluster of techniques - and Micah's swordsmanship in a sense is a masterpiece of technology - Mademoiselle touches the brick on the wall to confirm it.

"I've heard Lord Fennex is making strange stones... but can you tell me about the materials used in this building?

"Brick tile. This is also a basic replacement technology. It'll be inconvenient if you don't."

"Thank you very much. We need sturdy buildings on the perimeter, but there's a lot of stone in the middle."

"The city walls won't keep expanding. If there's a fire in a wooden building, one city could be wiped out."

Rather, it seems that fire is the second most important cause of urban destruction in the world.

The first is the monster, the second is the fire. We don't have accurate statistics, but if we limit ourselves to the last hundred years, when there has been less monster damage, there may be more fires.

City space is limited by the limits of the stone used in city walls to reduce the distance between buildings to reduce fire damage.

Nevertheless, there was a shortage of stone for a safe city.

Therefore, it is unexpectedly often a border territory that has the potential to develop at once if the shortage of stone material is eliminated.

"Very helpful. Yes, of course, and I will do my best to get you something in return."

"Thank you."

In return, it's very important.

It is also consistent with my belief that favor returns favor.

I would like to distribute it to trusted territories as soon as possible, as it cannot be covered by one territory alone, such as sourcing materials and building equipment.

This time, Baron Nepton and Viscount Square are the only ones to accept international students from another territory by the end of the year.

The slight time shift is the result of considering the difference in the amount of preference.

Discrimination is not allowed, distinction is important.

"Well, you'll be tired on the move today, so first let's get rid of the dust and then have a delicious meal to relax."

I can't beat the baths of Vicomte Sukna, who has a hot spring, but I'm confident I won't lose if it's a delicious meal.

Anyway, the Yak chef is going to wave his arm tonight.